Emperor Constantine V was the son of Emperor Leo III of Constantinople (r. 717-741), a ruler who brought much-needed stability to the Byzantine Empire...
Winston Churchill (c. 1874-1965)
"There is nothing like the sympathy of a common cause to make the settlement of other differences easy."
From Sir Winston...
This landscape painting by the American artist Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821–1872) alludes to the ancient tale of Odysseus and the land of the Lotus...
Dante Alighieri (c. 1265-1321)
"The bad state of the modern world is due—
as you may see, then—to bad leadership;
and not to natural corruption in you."
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Aeschines (c. 390-314 BCE) was a prominent Athenian politician, orator, and teacher of rhetoric in the tumultuous 4th century BCE. He lived during the...
